Networking

GRE Tunnel

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GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) wraps layer 3 traffic inside IP protocol 47 packets, creating a simple point-to-point tunnel between two hosts. The tunnel …

Transmission Daemon

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ConfigurationFirst install the transmission-daemon. The package is typically called transmission-daemon on Debian/Ubuntu and transmission-daemon or …

Suricata

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OverviewSuricata is an open source network threat detection engine that can operate as an Intrusion Detection System (IDS), Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), …

SSHd

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Secure Shell or SSH is a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two networked devices. Used primarily on GNU/Linux and …

Squid Guard

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SquidGuard is a URL rewrite program that works alongside Squid. It takes information about a requested page and checks it against a series of ACLs, blacklists, …

Squid

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For URL filtering please refer to the SquidGuard page. yum install squid -yAuthentication SetupBefore configuring squid you should get the authentication …

Linux Virtual Servers

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KeepalivedMy VMs each have three interfaces, eth0 is the 'public' network network, eth1 is the 'synchronization' network, and eth2 is the 'internal' network. …

libvirtd

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libvirt is an open source API and management tool for managing platform virtualization. It is used to manage Linux KVM and Xen virtual machines through …

Kerberos

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Kerberos is a secure network authentication system. It is very important that system times are all very close for successful authentication. You should …